Matthew Frye Jacobson on Why I Became a Historian
Randall Stephens from the Historical Society blog offers another installment of Why I Became a Historian, this time profiling Matthew Frye Jacobson, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and History at Yale University.

Active(ist)? History on Wikipedia
Jonathan McQuarrie at ActiveHistory.ca describes his efforts to edit a Wikipedia page with new scholarship, encouraged by his belief that public engagement for historians can take many forms.

Web 2.0A Course in Online Civility
“From Facebook stalkers to Twitter trolls, from mean-spirited blogs to their mean-spirited reader comments, from false friendships to the cyberbullying that, my students argue, has propelled some of its victims to suicide, social media is toxic.”